Sudan's pro-democracy movement calls for 'civil disobedience' days after more than 100 people were killed in a military crackdown in Khartoum
Sudan's pro-democracy movement has called for"civil disobedience" throughout the country beginning Sunday, days after a bloody military crackdown killed more than 100 people in the capital Khartoum.
The Sudanese Professionals Association , a body that led protests against former leader Omar al-Bashir, said the civil disobedience campaign will only end when the ruling generals"transfer power to a civil transitional authority in accordance with the Declaration of Freedom and Change ." It added, in a statement released Saturday, that the campaign meant not going to work and"general civil disobedience for a civil state.
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